Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Strategy: Face It, Put It Down.

Generally speaking, in the face of compulsive behavior, we feel very troublesome, hoping to relieve the irrational ideas and behaviors in mind. On the other hand, we also believe that these concepts and behaviors are reasonable and necessary.

So I often say: compulsion is actually doing what we think is meaningless, but not doing inner discomfort, and doing something more entangled in the heart.

Take forced washing.

Compulsion makes us seem to split into two people, one can analyze according to the actual situation, according to the logic of adults, judge the perversion of their metamorphosis, think that washing hands repeatedly, washing clothes, wasting time and effort, and hoping to get rid of it.

The other is that it is necessary to wash several times more seriously if there is a serious infectious disease. This attitude is not commensurate with our actual age and education.

The former represents rational adults, the latter is not rational, blindly afraid, and has immature psychological characteristics of children.

These two people hold their own views, and no one can rule anyone, which constitutes a disease of "knowing what they committed and torturing themselves".

At this time, we must carefully observe our compulsive behavior and recognize the following symptoms.

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What we see

In fact, it is the first thought in the mind (what we call mental compulsion), and then there is a combination of behavior (we call it accompanying ceremony).

Ritual is something that must be done after mental compulsion, temporarily relieving anxiety or guilt or mental behavior caused by mental compulsion.

Suppose we think: "what I touch is polluted" (mental compulsion), then we will do the "washing hands" act.

However, this relationship is not always obvious; for example, if a person with coercive compulsion meets a child whose age is the same age as his child, he will feel that he must continue three times and uninterruptedly turn the 1-10 10 figures back to three times (ritual) because he thinks, "if I don't do this, he will have bad luck".

When we see ourselves clearly

We can use our adult attitude to command our whole behavior and abandon children's behavior patterns.

We can tell ourselves, "this is not me, it is forced to cause trouble", so that I can face up to my compulsive behavior, appreciate it and understand it.

Obsessive compulsive disorder is like a crying child. The more we beat and scold and rebuke, the more psychological it becomes. If we treat him gently, we will understand and listen to him, and things will be different.

So, don't worry about getting rid of your compulsive symptoms, learn to live in peace with the disease.